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MikroTik HAP ax3
So, I bit the bullet.
I’ve used DDWRT for 5 plus years on a trusty Linksys ACS1900. It’s worked flawlessly. But its dual band and only God knows when Brainslayer will stick Wifi6 support into DDWRT.
So I thought of the heretical path of retreating to ASUStek and splashing out £300 on an AX5700 Broadcom chipset device running Merlin. (I loved Merlin before DDWRT).
But I saw the HAP ax3 at half the price of the ASUStek AX5700 equivalent and was seduced. 4x1.8ghz and 1GB ram. What’s not to like? I’ll blow the dust off my CCNA & CCDA texts and get stuck in.
Now, I have to say, I’ve transcribed every setting from DDWRT to RouterOS7.6 …painstakingly. I’ve watched ‘past their sell-by-date’ You Tube videos and read internet blogs till I’ve fallen asleep. I don’t VLAN, I don’t twiddle, I don’t BGP, OPSF, my MPLS days are way behind me, and NMAP is but a distant memory. If it isn’t bust I NEVER fix it. My network is as simple as it gets. The HAP ax3 is a work in configuration progress.
The RouterOS UI is not a source of joy. They need to work from a starting point, like DDWRT, that all users are dummies. Assume nothing.
If MikroTik are trying to bring new users on board, from consumer land, they’re going to have to try a lot harder.
When I see a MikroTik prosumer review by ‘Dong Knows’, SNB or similar I’ll know that RouterOS & Mikrotik have finally crossed the Rubicon.
So, I bit the bullet.
I’ve used DDWRT for 5 plus years on a trusty Linksys ACS1900. It’s worked flawlessly. But its dual band and only God knows when Brainslayer will stick Wifi6 support into DDWRT.
So I thought of the heretical path of retreating to ASUStek and splashing out £300 on an AX5700 Broadcom chipset device running Merlin. (I loved Merlin before DDWRT).
But I saw the HAP ax3 at half the price of the ASUStek AX5700 equivalent and was seduced. 4x1.8ghz and 1GB ram. What’s not to like? I’ll blow the dust off my CCNA & CCDA texts and get stuck in.
Now, I have to say, I’ve transcribed every setting from DDWRT to RouterOS7.6 …painstakingly. I’ve watched ‘past their sell-by-date’ You Tube videos and read internet blogs till I’ve fallen asleep. I don’t VLAN, I don’t twiddle, I don’t BGP, OPSF, my MPLS days are way behind me, and NMAP is but a distant memory. If it isn’t bust I NEVER fix it. My network is as simple as it gets. The HAP ax3 is a work in configuration progress.
The RouterOS UI is not a source of joy. They need to work from a starting point, like DDWRT, that all users are dummies. Assume nothing.
If MikroTik are trying to bring new users on board, from consumer land, they’re going to have to try a lot harder.
When I see a MikroTik prosumer review by ‘Dong Knows’, SNB or similar I’ll know that RouterOS & Mikrotik have finally crossed the Rubicon.